{"id":23291,"date":"2013-10-01T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=23291"},"modified":"2013-10-23T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T19:50:39","slug":"october-is-information-literacy-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2013\/10\/october-is-information-literacy-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"October is Information Literacy Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo-109x155.png\" src-medium=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo-134x190.png\" src-large=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo-134x190.png\" src-full=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo.png\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo.png\" alt=\"NFILLogo\" height=\"262\" width=\"185\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo.png 285w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo-109x155.png 109w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NFILLogo-134x190.png 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In October 2009, President Obama issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Presidential-Proclamation-National-Information-Literacy-Awareness-Month\" target=\"_blank\">proclamation<\/a> recognizing the critical importance of information literacy and declared October as Information Literacy Awareness Month. One of the ways to celebrate this event is to improve your own information skills.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This academic year all first-year students are reading the book <i>Justice: What&#8217;s the Right Thing to Do? <\/i>and many courses are incorporating aspects of this text \u00a0through discussions involving complex moral and ethical decisions. This month UC Libraries invites you to think about issues related to the use of information. As we incorporate information sources into our work, we need to make sure we do the right thing. How do we know what is the right thing to do? What guides us in our decisions?<\/p>\n<p>Every week in October, all over Langsam Library you\u2019ll see questions\u00a0 related to the use of information resources posted on chalkboards. Please respond to the prompt. We will \u00a0capture\u00a0your responses and\u00a0and summarize them\u00a0in weekly blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Olga Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2009, President Obama issued a proclamation recognizing the critical importance of information literacy and declared October as Information Literacy Awareness Month. One of the ways to celebrate this event is to improve your own information skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,13],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-23291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-langsam-library","category-uclibraries","tag-information-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}